Quotes about Censors

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Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what — Christina Westover
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. — Heywood Broun, Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter w — Laurence Sterne
You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. — Craig Ferguson
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is — Philip Pullman
La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen siendo. Claro, lo tienen — Antonio Guadarrama, Cóatl: el misterio de la serpiente
I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. — Andrea Cremer, Nightshade
Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Ca — Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Trilogy
Truth is the preferred weapon of God, and censorship is the most abused tool of the Devil. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the gove — Thomas Sowell
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame — Peter S. Jennison
Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons and daugh — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be som — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whos — John Milton, Areopagitica
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. — Heinrich Heine
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. D — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very li — Benjamin Franklin
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, — Franklin D. Roosevelt